The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-10
CHARLESTON ITEMS.
Politics and Base Ball thu Popul
Topics of Talk.


Topics of Talk.
CHARLESTON, Oct S-The week has been
absolutely dull in this city. The burglars
are taking a rest, ditto the police. The new
steamship line has died a natural death.
! The railroad movement languishes, and
people have had nothing to talk about, save
| politics and the gala week. In these direc-
| tions there has been some activity. The
| United Labor party has had its first mass
meeting but it was a ridiculouSly tame
affair, and developed nothing whatever i'll
the way of its proposed policy. The organ
| izer of the movement, Mr.. Benjamin
| Adams, is an intelligent cotton merchant
who has evidently made a good deal,
/ and who has gone crazy on the Henry
| George and Father Mc(ilynn theories anent
| land taxation. Mr. Adams is unfortunately
not a speaker, and the ieutenants by whom
| he has surrounded himself and placed in
! command of his platOons are two or three
| arrant and blatant demagogues, without
| brains and without any influence in the
1 communty-men whose sole arguments are
| abuse and VituperatiOn AT the meeting on
| Tuesday night one of the speakers said that
statement attributed to well-known
| citizen was a blank blank banketty, blank
| blank lie, and that the man who made it
was blank blank blanketty blank blank
| blank. He named half dozen respectable
merchants and mechanics, and denounced
them in the most foul and obscene
| language.
Another speaker was equally inelegant
and vehement in his grafton, and the third
was simply imbeciie in his remarks This
| last was worklngman, an ambitious sub
overseer in the cotton factory, with aspira-
tions for Office. He floundered through an
attempt TO explain the Henry George
theory, but only succeeded in confusing his
audience
The new party has attracted dozen or
more of the old negro politicians, who think
they see in it wedge to split the ranks of
| the Democracy. These men are running
with two parties, the United Labor party
and the Republican Protective Union.
When the party lines are drawn it will be
found that the United Labor party will
vanish into thin air.
| The Young Mems Democratic Club have
completed their organization, and have done
| 1t in such way as to win the approval of
everybody. No new aspirants for the May
orally have appeared during the week, and
it is probable there will be a lull in politics
now until after the gala week.
BASE BALL EXPIRES
here tomorrow. Recently it has had but
| moribund existence The home umpire has
effecrually killed it, and, besides, the season
was too protracted. Will Charleston have
| base ball next year! 1t hardly looks prob
able after the disastrous results of the two
| years experience, but nevertheless there is
every indication that Charleston will be in
| the league if there is any league
! Base ball has cost Charleston about $40. 900
hard cash. but this amount has been paid
almost entirely by one man. In 1886 the
| club was formed with a capital stock of
| $4,000. This was pretty much swallowed
up in laying out and fencing i'll the grounds,
building the stands, etc. Bad management
| cost the club a good deal in the way of
| costly experiments with incompetent and
| high-salaried players. Then came the earth
| quake, i'll spite of which Charleston kept its
| team in the field till the end of the season.
At the opening there were about 100
stockholders in the club The shares were
gradually bought up by Capt. Thomas
Young, one of the most phenomenal
stevedore by trade, but is now an exclusive
wharf owner who controls nearly all the
business at this port. He is immen sely rich
and is passionately fond of the national
game. The season of 1886 cost him about
$1,000 When the season of 1887 opened he
furnished the sinews of war and it was ow-
ing to his liberality that Charleston fought
the fight through the season and preserved
her franchise in the League
The game has not paid here since the mid
die of August. The circuit was a costly one,
each trip of the team costing the club about
500 over and above the guarantee money,
and not counting the salary list On several
occasions attempts were made to freeze
Charleston out, the other clubs offering as
high rs 81 900 for the franchise. Capt
Young declined all these, and has, at his
own expense, carried the club through the
season and saved her franchise.
THE PROGRAMME OF 1888.
1t is too early to speak of what will be the
programme for 1888, but it has been sug-
gested that a league composed of South
Atlantic cities could be made to pay the in
vestors and furnish good ball playing The
scheme i'll contemplation embraces Savan-
nah, Columbia, Charleston, Wilmington,
Charlotte, Augusta, Jacksonville, Macon,
Atlanta, and possibly one or two other
cities. Such league could not afford gilt
edged players who would remain in the
teams only until they were scooped up by a
piratical Northern or Western manager,
but it is suggested that good players at
moderate salaries could be secured, and with
comparatively short circuits the game could
be made successful.
Some such proposition will be made by
Charleston. II it fails, and Charleston is
forced into a league with Memphis, New
Orleans, Birmingham and other cities far
apart, arrangements will have to be made
to secure each club against the tactics that
have disgraced the present season.
The inflow of cotton to the port continues,
and the ocean tramps are getting all the
cargoes they want The receipts since Sept
! amount to 10000 bales, against 5000
bales for the same period last year. OF this
amount over 10000 bales have been ex-
ported already.
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